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Season 3 - Episode 93 - The path of Co-Creating · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today we are talking about decisions you make and Co
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  creating and what that all means, big conversation.
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  But we're going to try to break it down just a tad and see if we
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  can get some clarity on at least my beliefs of it.
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  Because I think I, you know, I have been exposed to lots of
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  different beliefs on this subject.
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  And I think that what has I've learned has served me and I want
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  to share it with all of you. So there is a debate going on
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  about, you know, people in the world will love to talk about
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  how they don't have choices. Things just seem to happen to
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  them. And I am of the belief that
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  sometimes things do happen. You know, I was 10 years old and
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  my dad had a heart attack and I didn't have any control over
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  that. I had no control over that
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  whatsoever. However, he had some control
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  over that. He didn't have to smoke, he
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  didn't have to eat the way he ate, and he didn't have to make
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  the choices he made for himself in those conditions that caused
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  his body to get the way that it was.
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  Now, we could sit here and debate all day long if he
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  understood it, if he knew about it, if he was informed.
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  Did the cigarette companies inform them back in the 70s that
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  this is what was going on? Probably not.
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  But were there signs that he was not?
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  Well, yes. He took high blood pressure
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  medication. Was he seeing a doctor for it?
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  Yes. Did a doctor tell him to stop
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  smoking? Yes.
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  Did he continue to smoke anyway? Yes.
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  So was IA victim of the situation or was IA victim of
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  his choices? And you got to know, I mean, I'm
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  talking about somebody that was my person.
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  My father was my person. I loved him more than I can,
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  Can't even explain. So this isn't about putting
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  blame on anyone. This is about operating with
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  awareness and the understanding of what choices you make as a
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  person affect other people in ways when they don't have
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  anything to say about it, IE kids.
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  However, most adults have lots of different options and lots of
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  different choices. I think lots of things that
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  happened to you when you're a kid.
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  But you're right, we don't have a lot of control over those.
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  What we do have control over though is what we believe about
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  them. We have control over them.
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  We can take that, you know, as a as an adult and say this is what
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  that event meant to me. This is how I assign it or I can
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  stay in that mentality of what it brought to me and and suffer
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  my entire life for something that happened when I was a kid.
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  And I am of the belief that we have been given the universe has
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  given us the ability to imagine, to create, to have emotions and
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  feelings that are beyond any other creatures that we know of.
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  Although there is some debate about that because elephants and
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  other animals that are highly intelligent animals, dolphins
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  have been shown to have very similar types of capabilities.
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  We just don't know the fullest extent of it yet because the
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  science hasn't caught up with it.
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  However, I'm a firm believer that you know anything is
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  possible and that's maybe that's true.
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  Anyway, back to what I was saying.
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  I think that we have, once we have the awareness, at whatever
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  age that is, whatever age your awareness starts to develop, you
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  start to be able to create thoughts and push yourself
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  forward with them. So if your awareness comes in, I
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  know when I was a child that awareness of him almost dying
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  did change my perspective and did it make me a different
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  person 100%? Am I?
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  Was I grateful for that? Yeah, really was.
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  And even though my mother was so anxious all the time, my
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  mother's anxiety helped me to learn anxiety.
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  But what that did in turn was help me to be a really, really
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  driven person, to get rid of it. And it helped me to be a better
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  coach, help everybody else out of it.
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  So there are ways and perspectives that you can attach
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  to anything. Now, could I have attached.
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  I suffered from this when I was a child and it was a terrible
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  thing. And I continued you to suffer
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  for it my whole life. Yeah, but guess what?
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  That's what the whole thing of free will, imagination,
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  creativity does for us. It gives us the ability to Co
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  create. And I was not going to stay in a
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  mentality of a victim. I was not a victim of anything.
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  Nothing. I am.
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  I have the ability to change what I believe.
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  And I think that's what's so empowering about having this.
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  And that's why I'm talking about it.
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  I mean, is it a controversial subject to talk about?
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  Yeah, it is. Because some people want to stay
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  in that place of, oh, this happened to me instead of, you
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  know what? It happened.
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  And I have a choice about what I believe about it.
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  I have a choice about what I can take from it.
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  I have a choice about how I want to cultivate myself from this
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  moving forward. I don't have to choose to think
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  that this happened as the phrase goes.
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  And again, this, even this phrase is controversial to some
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  people. It happened to me.
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  It is is the way they choose. But the phrase that I always
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  like to say is, well, did it happen for you or to you?
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  And some people get really and it just pissed off about that
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  phrase because they're like, well, how could it happen for
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  me? I mean, this is terrible, but it
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  those moments give you the ability to shape.
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  It's kind of like that whole thing about a Pearl does not
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  form unless it's under the pressure of that oyster creating
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  it. A diamond does not form unless
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  it that it's under the pressure of turning that coal into that
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  diamond. And sometimes the pressure comes
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  from the pains and sometimes the pressure is what we need.
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  Sometimes things crack under pressure.
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  But I think the interesting thing about human beings is we
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  have the choice. We do have the choice.
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  We do have the choice. So I'm just throwing it out
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  there for some food for thought. Today you have the choice about
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  your situations, about what you believe about them and what you
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  want to see and what you want to focus on.
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  So you can Co create with the universe.
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  You can Co create with God and you can make decisions and move
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  forward in such a powerful way. So I hope you have a great day
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  Co creating and I hope that this is helpful to you to hear some
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  different perspectives on this and I hope you have a blessed
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  day. I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.